Campo Grande
We didn't go into Campo Grande, but the whole area is striking for how flat and vast it is, as this aerial photo shows. In fact we had a clear flight from Sao Paulo and we seemed to fly over the same dead straight road for about 800 kilometres or more all the way to Campo Grande without a hill in sight! The other really striking feature is the redness of the earth. Most of the roads in this area are red earth and clouds of red dust follow any travelling vehicle. It reminded me that when we lived in Brazil 30 years ago, our house bordered a red earth road and every surface in the house was permanently covered in red dust. I remember that it was a considerable relief when after a couple of years the road was paved.